On July 23rd this year, Spaniards voted in the third inconclusive general election in the past four years, called by the country’s Socialist premier, Pedro Sànchez, after his party’s huge defeat in regional and local elections two months prior - a result widely described as a “right-wing tsunami” for the two main opposition parties, Partido Popular and Vox.
However, the two right-of-centre parties fell four seats short of being able to form a coalition government and subsequent majority, losing hundreds of thousands of votes to Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party after the government's concessions to Basque and Catalan separatist parties made during the previous congress.
